2011/2/25 Maarten Vanraes <[email protected]>: > Op donderdag 24 februari 2011 14:19:54 schreef Frank Griffin: >> Wolfgang Bornath wrote: >> > Now with LVM, what do I do? >> >> Pretty much exactly the same, if that's what you want. LVM is just a >> layer of indirection that you place on top of *only* those partitions >> you want LVM to control. It lets you create multiple "virtual" >> partitions each of which includes one or more physical partitions. In >> the minimal case, you can partition exactly as you would without LVM, >> but make each of the Mageia partitions an LV formatted as ext4 (or >> whatever) rather than a physical ext4. >> >> The difference is that later on if you need to expand one of these 1-1 >> LVM partitions, all you do is create another physical partition >> *somewhere* - either on that physical disk or another you add - and tell >> LVM to make that new physical partition part of the LV you want to >> expand. The original physical partition on which you based the LVM >> stays exactly where it is without change, and the Logical Volume just >> magically increases in size by the size of the new physical partition >> you added. >> >> Using LVM for some or all of Mageia has no effect on your ability to use >> standard partitioning for other partitions on these disks. > > don't forget that a filesystem on top of this, still has to be resized as > well...
Can it be that LVM is not yet possible with Mageia? I did a beta 1 installation yesterday for other testing reasons and did not find any button or whatever in diskdrake which said "LVM" or similar. May be I overlooked it... -- wobo
